Bringing 3D fabrication tools directly to the consumer has been fraught with challenges; these at-home printers are either insanely expensive or limited in scope. A new concept called FLUX claims that it's solved all those conundrums with an all-in-one 3D printer that offers modular extruders for ultimate… »11/11/14 9:50pm 11/11/14 9:50pm

3D printing can make an action figure copy of your body and face, but the hair usually ends up looking like a Lego minifig wig. The mad scientists at Disney Research just solved that, with an algorithm so powerful it can trace your hair's shape and color with ultra-realism. »8/09/14 9:00am 8/09/14 9:00am

Kids are just the best. And dads who love their kids make them even better. Leon is a boy who was born without fingers on one of his hands. Instead of making him think he was different, his father Paul McCarthy made him believe he was special. In fact, McCarthy made a prosthetic hand with a 3D printer so his son could… »11/04/13 8:34pm 11/04/13 8:34pm

Everyone's now aware of 3D printing — they’ve read about it in the papers, on blogs or seen it on TV. The mentality now seems to be that, in the future, we'll be able to download our products or make them ourselves with CAD programs, apps and 3D scanners, then just print them out, either at home, or in localised… »5/17/13 9:11am 5/17/13 9:11am

Motherboard just released a trailer for Click. Print. Gun., its upcoming documentary on 3D printed guns, and you get to see a glimpse of the terrifying future that is having access to guns and gun parts that you can just click and print. The doc follows Cody R. Wilson, a guy who has home printed a semi-automatic… »3/20/13 6:40pm 3/20/13 6:40pm

Army personnel often face situations during combat that can't be overcome with readily available equipment, and they rarely have time to wait for the Pentagon's glacial-paced R&D to devise a solution. But with the Army's new mobile specialty production facility, they won't have to. »8/22/12 11:30am 8/22/12 11:30am

What's one of the most magical, powerful, potentially impactful inventions of the last several years? The obscenely ingenious 3D printer. Unfortunately, as XKCD points out, it's likely that with great power comes great big spam penises. [XKCD] »7/13/11 8:20am 7/13/11 8:20am

It's always a treat when Colbert gives face time to the geeks—or in this case to a handful of geeky 3D-printed versions of himself. If you didn't crave a MakerBot before, you will after experiencing the Colbert teddybear. »6/09/11 9:14am 6/09/11 9:14am

I'm fast becoming obsessed with 3D printers, and should I ever bite the bullet and purchase an iPad, FreshFiber's case is first on my list of accessories. It costs 100€ ($135) and comes in graphite or white. [FOC] »11/15/10 5:40am 11/15/10 5:40am

Normally they're contained in a box, so the fact that this 3D printer isn't confined means it's theoretically capable of building much larger objects that most. In fact, the owner wants to build a cathedral with it. »3/12/10 5:20pm 3/12/10 5:20pm

3D printers are a boon to industrial designers, many of whom have been happily using ultra-expensive
real-life Star Trek replicators »10/17/08 4:45am 10/17/08 4:45am for years now. Yeah, cool, good for them, Considering the recent announcement of Objet's Alaris30 3D desktop printer, my miniature plastic battle royale may not be as far off as I…

When I saw this come up in my RSS feeds, I thought it said Brian Lam, and so I got rather excited. I was, however, (as I so frequently am) wrong. This lamp is the brainchild of Alexander Lervik, who had an MR scan done in Stockholm of his own grey matter, before printing up the results on a 3-D printer. "Yes," he says… »3/27/08 6:56am 3/27/08 6:56am